Last Sail of 2014
We had a great Science on the Sound Sail with the students from the Cathedral Academy in Bridgeport. Thanks to Greenwich Aviation for the fantastic aerial photograph.
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Exploring the Sound with 6th Grade Students from Rippowam Middle School
Rippowam Middle School of Stamford, Connecticut paid a visit to SoundWaters for a day of exploring and hands-on learning. The 6th grade students performed water quality experiments, used seine nets to catch animals along the shores of Long Island Sound, learned the morphology of local live animals, including horseshoe crabs, sea stars, oyster toad fish, and explored Holly […]
What a trawl!
We picked up not 1 but 2 large tautog in the trawl today with the students from the St James School.
Cleanup Day Results!
83 volunteers picked up a total of 229 pounds of trash during yesterday’s Coastal Cleanup at SoundWaters. The top three items volunteers picked up at the park: nearly 1, 500 bottle caps (plastic and metal), over 900 food wrappers and over 800 cigarette butts, among many other items. Photo: Members of the Westhill High School […]
Sunday, October 5 – SoundWaters Coastal Cleanup Day
Join SoundWaters and 640,000 volunteer world-wide who are participating in International Coastal Clean-up events throughout the world. In 2013, volunteers picked up 12,329,332 tons of trash. Sunday, October 5, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Meet at the SoundWaters Coastal Center at Cove Island Park to help protect the coastline by picking up and counting debris […]
Benefit for SoundWaters – Sign of the Whale Gives Back – Thurs, Oct 2
Join SoundWaters at Sign of the Whale in Harbor Point on Thursday, October 2 from 5:30pm – 7:30pm for Happy Hour. $30 open bar, tickets purchased at the door and a portion of the proceeds go to SoundWaters. Sign of the Whale is located at 6 Harbor Point Road, Stamford, CT. Hope to see you […]
Stamford Hurricane Gate closed for maintenance
The Stamford Hurricane Gate will be closed for an extended period of time while they do maintenance. Fortunately the schooner SoundWaters is docked outside the gate at Brewers Yacht Haven.
Schooner SoundWaters comes home
The schooner SoundWaters is headed in the East Branch of Stamford Harbor past the Hurricane Barrier. We had a great time visiting the Eastern half of Long Island Sound. 3.5 weeks, 430 nm traveled and over 1000 guests sailing with us out of Port Jefferson, Bridgeport, Milford, Old Saybrook and Greenport. It’s great to be back […]
Sunrise off Bug Light
The crew had an early morning start today to catch the fair tide through Plum Gut and into Long Island Sound. We’ll be in Port Jefferson tomorrow through Labor day. Come on down and go for a sail!
Sept. 16 Adriaen Block & Long Island Sound
Don’t miss this fascinating program on Adriaen Block and the discovery and history of Long Island Sound, featuring Wesleyan professor Johan (Joop) C. Varekamp at UCONN Stamford, noon – 1:30 pm. For more information and to reserve a seat, click here.
